Boris Ottokar unbelievable

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Boris Ottokar Unbegaun (originally Russian Борис Генрихович Унбегаун / Boris Genrichowitsch Unbegaun ; born August 23 . Jul / 4. September  1898 greg. In Moscow , † 4. March 1973 in New York ) was a Russian Slawist German descent .

After the Russian civil war, in which he had fought on the side of the whites, Unbegaun first emigrated to Slovenia, where he began studying at the University of Ljubljana . He later moved to Paris, where he received his doctorate in 1935. In 1940 he was deported by the Germans to the Buchenwald concentration camp , where he stayed until the end of the war. After 1945 he taught in Strasbourg, Brussels and Oxford, where he became Professor of Comparative Slavic Philology in 1953. In 1965 he was called to the University of New York , where he worked until his death.

Unbegaun devoted himself in particular to research into modern and older Russian. He worked on the Oxford English-Russian dictionary. In the religious-historical book series Mana , he made the contribution to the religion of the Slavs .

Works (selection)

  • Catalog des périodiques slaves et relatifs aux études slaves des bibliothèques de Paris , Paris, Champion 1929
  • La Langue russe au XVIe (1500-1550), vol. 1: La flexion des noms , Paris 1935
  • Les débuts de la langue littéraire chez les Serbes , Paris, Champion 1935
  • with Joseph Vendryès; Ernest Tonnelat: Les religions des Celtes, des Germains et des anciens Slaves , in Albet Grenier: Les religions Étrusque et Romaine, (Mana) Paris, Presses Universitaire de France 1948
  • L'Origine du nom des Ruthènes , Winnipeg, Acad. ukrainienne libre des sciences 1953
  • A bibliographical guide to the Russian language , Oxford, Clarendon 1953
  • (Ed.): AS Pushkin: Tales of the late Ivan Petrovich Belkin with a glossary , Blackwell's Russian Texts, Oxford, Basil Blackwell 1964
  • Russian versification , Oxford, Clarendon Press 1956 (Repr. 1966)
  • Russian grammar , Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1969
  • Three 18th century Russian grammars. Reprint of the edition of 1706, 1731 and 1750 , Munich, Fink 1969 (Slavic Propylaea, texts in reprints and reprints, volume 55).
  • Studies in Slavic Linguistics and Poetics , New York University Press 1969
  • Selected papers on Russian and Slavonic philology , compiled by R. Auty and AE Pennington. Oxford, Clarendon Press 1969
  • Russian surnames , Oxford, Clarendon Press 1972
  • Russkie familii , Moscow, Progress 1989
  • with Marcus Wheeler; Paul Falla (Ed.), The Oxford Russion Dictionary , Oxford 1997, ISBN 0198601530

literature

  • Robert Magidoff; George Y. Shevelov; JSG Simmons, JSG; Kiril Taronovski (Ed.), Studies in Slavic Linguistics and Poetics in Honor of Boris O. Unbegaun , New York, New York University Press 1968

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personal data
SURNAME Unbelievable, Boris Ottokar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Unbelievable, Boris Genrichowitsch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian Slavist
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH March 4th 1973
Place of death New York